After Bruno dies in the gas chamber inside Auschwitz, his parents are devastated, and his mother and sister end up traveling back to Berlin while his father stays at the concentration camp. Several days after Bruno disappears, soldiers discover his clothes by the fence and inform the Commandant about their discovery.
At first his family thinks he has gone missing and move back to Berlin, however, his father finds the entrance to the fence and his son's clothes and pieces the events together of how Bruno died. Consumed with guilt, the commandant loses his zest for life and takes it out on his subordinates in tyranny.
Bruno's father, known simply as “Father” in the novel, is a commanding officer in the Nazi Party who takes charge of operations for the Out-With (Auschwitz) Camp in Poland. Father has spent all of his adult life in military service. He fought in the German Army during World War II.
This is, in fact, what happened: Bruno was herded with Shmuel into a gas chamber, and both boys were gassed. As he realizes what must have happened, Bruno's father is grief stricken. He becomes depressed and no longer is concerned with his career.
Did they find Bruno's body in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?
Bruno dies anonymously, along with the other victims of the concentration camp. As these victims' bodies were either left in mass graves or burned, and Bruno was wearing the “striped pajamas” of the other prisoners, his body is never identified as different from the rest.
Bruno's pantheism was not taken lightly by the church, nor was his teaching of metempsychosis regarding the reincarnation of the soul. The Inquisition found him guilty, and he was burned alive at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600.
Many people who have read the book or watched the film adaptation believe that it is a true story based on real people and real events. However, it is important to understand that the book is a work of fiction. The events portrayed could never have happened.
Though Bruno does feel affection for his father, and aspires to be like him when he grows up, he also feels a kind of fear of Father—he is not warm like Mother or Grandmother, and treats Bruno more like a miniature adult than a child.
Setting off to explore, Bruno left the house and started walking along the fence. As he walked, he tried not to think about the fact that his parents had expressly forbade him from going anywhere near the camp.
What happened to Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?
Kotler is eventually transferred away from Auschwitz when Father discovers that Kotler's father, a literature professor, fled from Germany in 1938 at the start of the war.
Bruno Mars admits that the sudden death of his mother had a huge impact on him. Bernadette San Pedro Bayot died of a brain aneurysm in June 2013 when she was just 55. "My life has changed," he tells the February issue of Latina magazine. "She's more than my music.
Gretel suddenly broke off their conversation with a scream. She'd found lice eggs in her hair. Bruno had lice, too, and his parents had to shave his hair off.
If you were Shmuel, how would you answer Bruno's last questions: “Why are there so many people on that side of the fence? And what are you all doing there?”
Even though Maria's body language and hesitation show that she agrees with Bruno's dislike of Auschwitz and Father's new position, she knows that it is not safe or proper to bad-mouth Father, due to his role as both family patriarch and Nazi officer.
The people Gretel saw from Bruno's window weren't just children. In addition to small boys, there were adult men, both fathers and grandfathers. Gretel asked who these people were and where all the girls and women were, but Bruno had no answers. The narrator describes the view from the window.
What happens to Bruno's father at the end of the novel?
Upon studying the book in class, we can infer that Bruno's father has just been given the same fate as Lieutenant Kotler; sent to the gas chambers for behaviour considered unclean to the Nazi-German hierarchy.
Why does Maria feel loyalty towards Bruno's father?
When Maria's mother grew sick, Father paid for her medical expenses and hired Maria to work for him. When her mother died, he paid for the funeral. It was for these reasons, Maria told Bruno, that she would not say a bad word about Father.
Mother grew increasingly unhappy with life at Out-With after the lice incident. Bruno felt sorry that she had no friends there, especially after Lieutenant Kotler's transfer. One day, Bruno walked by Father's office where he overheard Mother telling Father she wanted to get away from this horrible place.
Ralf enters the camp as the prisoners are sent to a gas chamber, where pesticide pellets are poured from a hole in the ceiling, filling the chamber with toxic gas. Bruno dies in the chamber along with Shmuel, leaving Ralf, Elsa, and Gretel distraught.
What happened to Pavel in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?
Pavel becomes thinner and frailer by the day, and is beaten (likely to death) by Kotler when he accidentally drops a wine bottle in Kotler's lap at dinner.
